When designing any system, you’ll often have to design a power supply to meet your requirements. A very popular solution is to employ a switch mode power supply (or SMPS), due to their very high efficiency. However, it is very challenging to de...

On your mark, get set, go! Stopwatches are primarily known for their use at track or swim meets. Their accuracy generally does not extend beyond a millisecond, and you only need such specificity when the winner isn’t clear to the naked eye (als...

Three-hundred teams entered this year’s Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge North America Design Contest. Those 300 teams were narrowed down to three – each design offering a unique and innovative solution for a pressing real-world problem. But only one design could win the top prize.
Troy Bryant and Sean Lyons from the University...

In parts 1 and 2 of this series , my colleague Matthew Sauceda described how to successfully bias radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs). A monitoring and control) solution is required to overcome the temperature-dependent nonlinearity of a RF PA. Automated monitoring and control (AMC) solutions overcome the nonlinearity by dynamically controlling...

This guest blog comes from Hakki Refai, chief technology officer for Optecks, a TI DLP ® Design House dedicated to developing products and solutions for applications utilizing DLP technology.
In today’s world, 3D representations of objects and data are highly sought after and widely used tools for applications as diverse as manufacturing...

When powering up your buck converter for the first time, wouldn’t it be nice to be confident that it will be stable? This is certainly possible by using a simple simulation model and a few simple calculations to set the error amplifier and power-stage gains.
Figure 1 shows a current-mode (CM) model with the error amplifier, power-stage gain...

Low-power applications such as e-meters often require a simple offline power supply, where 3.3V powers up a microcontroller and charges a lithium-ion battery to 4.2V. You can do this with a mains frequency power transformer or with a complex AC/DC offline power supply. Both approaches have well-known disadvantages related to weight, size and/or complexity...

Who wouldn’t love having a home that runs itself? We’re in a golden age of ever-smarter gadgets, and one of the hottest areas of innovation is one that’s long captured the public’s fascination: robots.
The industrial arena h...

Testament to its ease-of-use, small solution size, galvanic isolation, wide input voltage range, and low overall bill-of-materials cost, a properly-designed Fly-Buck ™ circuit is as indispensable as it is convenient.
For example, programm...

Last week we released a new TI Design featuring AM335x: Solar Inverter Gateway Development Platform Reference Design . Solar inverter gateways are an important piece of the overall solar inverter solution; they provide a way for the system owner ...

In 1985, words like “USB,” “Blu-Ray” or “laptop,” would likely have elicited some strange looks. In 2015, these words are a part of our every day language. So, when the personal computer and electronics industries set out to fundamentally change the universal serial bus (USB), it was no easy task. That’s why...

The recently released universal serial bus (USB) Type-C connector comes with many enhanced features. The connector is well-known to be “flippable” and reversible, and able to carry data, video and power over one connection. The specificat...

The expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive billions of newly connected devices by 2020. One of the primary reasons for connecting these devices is to create more intelligent and automated systems through the processing of data...

In my last blog post, “ Three things you should know about Ethernet PHYs ,” I discussed the evolution of Ethernet and the most essential information about the Ethernet physical layer transceiver (PHY). In this post, I’ll pick up wher...

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